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There are over 1 billion people in the world without adequate shelter. RanDome is a patented method which greatly reduces the complexity of constructing domes. It is our hope that the RanDome method can be adopted for use in temporary or permanent structures for people in need.

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Kidnapped DNC Relief Workers in Somalia Rescued

The two relief workers kidnapped in Galkayo in Central Somalia last October - Jessica Buchanan (American) and Paul Hagen (Danish) - were rescued last night  in a raid shortly before President Obama was to give his State of the Union speech.  The Somalian government and many civilians have always strongly denounced the actions of the pirate kidnappers. The Danish Refugee Council has worked in Somalia since 1998 bringing aid and relief to an estimated 450,000 people in the Horn of Africa and Yemen in spite of the extreme dangers of war  and of self-proclaimed militant groups such as the one which kidnapped the two DNC representatives along with a Somalian who accompanied them. No word yet as to what happened to the Somalian colleague.

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Occupy Maine Plans to Stick through the Winter

Article in Portland's Sun Journal, November 20, 2011

Diverse Group of Protesters Seeking a Sense of Community

Housed on a bookshelf inside the RanDome - dubbed the "Ohm Dome" Spiritual Center at the Occupy Maine encampment - are books written by Martin Luther King, Jr. Mahatma Ghandi and the Dalai Llama.

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Photo by Daryn Slover, Sun Journal Buy a Print

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http://www.sunjournal.com/news/state/2011/11/20/occupymaine-diverse-group-protesters-seeking-sense-community/1116555

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RanDome makes the Local Newspaper

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In the November 3 edition of the Portland Daily Sun reporter David Carkuff covers the local reaction to the RanDome donated to Lincoln Park´s Occupy Maine (#occupymaine) encampment. One of Dick's quotes from the article, "I'm the first one, according to the U.S. Patent Office, to build out of corners," Read the entire story: Dome Builder Sees Global Future for Unique Design.

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RanDome Shelters Lincoln Park Occupants from Nor'easter Snow

Bucky' s daughter Allegra (Center) visits Lincoln Park after snowfall. Photo by: Kim Waite
With the Nor'easter snowstorm approaching, RanDome inventor Dick Fischbeck knew time was short.  The snowfall predicted for Saturday night would leave dozens of Lincoln Park's occupants "out in the cold".  Only weeks earlier Dick's polyethylene RanDome shelter had made it's debut at MOFGA's Common Ground Country Fair. Early Saturday morning Dick strapped the still rolled up RanDome onto his car and drove to Portland.  The dome was rapidly unrolled onto the grounds.  It is serving as a community center for Occupy Maine.  Two more RanDomes have now been requested for that location. For more on this read new article: Geodesic Emergency Shelter Makes it to Lincoln Park in the Nick of Time.

RanDome and Occupy Maine were honored by the visit of Allegra Fuller Snyder - Buckminster Fuller's daughter - on Sunday. Dick will be holding a RanDome workshop at the Third Biennial Design Science Symposium (November 11 - 13, 2011) in Providence, Rhode Island.

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The Homeless Tutor Protesters on How to Occupy Wall Street

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Photo Credit: Scott Lynch "Scoboco" http://goo.gl/2caU8

Despite the "comfort stations" which ease somewhat the initial shock of not having a roof over their heads, protesters occupying parks throughout the country are getting first hand experience of what life is truly like on the streets. In an unexpected twist the homeless are now serving as role models and are providing a whole new perspective on homelessness. Things people with a place to live take for granted - using the restroom, sitting down, sleeping, staying warm, having a snack - are a matter of life and death for the homeless who live in ways reminiscent of the prehistoric caveman, struggling daily to find food, stay safe and fulfill the most basic necessities to sustain life.  According to the Associated Press: "With the temperature dropping, they are stockpiling donated coats, blankets and scarves, trying to secure cots and military-grade tents, and getting survival tips from the homeless people who have joined their encampments."

Occupy Wall Street Brings Homelessness Into the Open

Surviving Zuccotti Park:  How the Protesters stay Warm, Fed and Cheery

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Occupy Earth

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"We have one place. Call it Spaceship Earth."

"Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship. And our spaceship is so superbly designed as to be able to keep life regenerating on board despite the phenomenon, entropy, by which all local physical systems lose energy. So we have to obtain our biological life-regenerating energy from another spaceship the sun." -rbf 

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MOFGA Common Ground Country Fair Revisited

It was a hectic two weeks preparing for the Common Ground Country Fair and in a flash it is over.  Here are a few pictures.  More to come as we begin to go through all the videos and photos we took from the fair. The RanDome will be displayed next at The Third Biennial Design Science Symposium at RISD in November.

How to Build a Randome Geodesic Emergency Shelter

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